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The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1839, when that title was assumed by Mariano Rivera Paz. Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

The title of "President" has been used by democratically elected leaders and appointed heads of state, as well as by dictators who took power by military coup.

[edit] List of Presidents of Guatemala (1839-Present)

Term start	Term end	Name	Political Party
3 December 1839	25 February 1842	Mariano Rivera Paz (1st time)	Liberal Party
14 December 1841	14 May 1842	José Venancio López Requena (acting for Rivera Paz to 25 February 1842)	Liberal Party
14 May 1842	14 December 1844	Mariano Rivera Paz (2nd time)	Liberal Party
14 December 1844	16 August 1848	José Rafael Carrera Turcios (1st time)	Conservative Party
16 August 1848	28 November 1848	Juan Antonio Martínez (interim)	Conservative Party
28 November 1848	3 January 1849	José Bernardo Escobar (interim)	Conservative Party
3 January 1849	6 November 1851	Mariano Paredes (interim)	Liberal Party
6 November 1851	14 April 1865	José Rafael Carrera Turcios (2nd time) (styled Perpetual President from 21 October 1854)	Conservative Party
14 April 1865	24 May 1865	Pedro de Aycinena y Piñol (acting)	Conservative Party
24 May 1865	29 June 1871	Vicente Cerna Sandoval	Liberal Party
29 June 1871	4 June 1873	Miguel García Granados Zavala (in rebellion from 3 June 1871)	Liberal Party
4 June 1873	2 April 1885	Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón	Liberal Party
2 April 1885	5 April 1885	Alejandro M. Sinibaldi (acting)	Liberal Party
6 April 1885	15 March 1892	Manuel Lisandro Barillas Bercián (acting to 15 March 1886)	Conservative Party
15 March 1892	8 February 1898	José María Reina Barrios	Conservative Party
8 February 1898	15 April 1920	Manuel José Estrada Cabrera (acting to 2 October 1898)	Liberal Party
15 April 1920	10 December 1921	Carlos Herrera y Luna (acting to 15 September 1920; Head of State from 13 June 1921)	Conservative Party
10 December 1921	26 September 1926	José María Orellana Pinto (Head of State to 14 January 1922; acting to 4 March 1922)	Conservative Party
26 September 1926	2 January 1931	Lázaro Chacón González (acting to 18 December 1926)	Conservative Party
2 January 1931	14 February 1931	José María Reina Andrade (acting)	Conservative Party
14 February 1931	4 July 1944	Jorge Ubico y Castañeda	Liberal Party
4 July 1944	20 October 1944	Juan Federico Ponce Vaides	Liberal Party
20 October 1944	15 March 1945	Revolutionary Government Junta composed of: Francisco Javier Arana Jacobo Arbenz Guzman Jorge Toriello Garrido	Military
15 March 1945	15 March 1951	Juan José Arévalo Bermejo	Revolutionary Action Party
15 March 1951	27 June 1954	Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán	Revolutionary Action Party
27 June 1954	28 June 1954	Carlos Enrique Díaz de León (provisional)	Liberal Party
28 June 1954	2 July 1954	Government Junta I composed of: Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre (junta chairman) Jose Angel Sanchez Jose Luis Cruz Salazar Carlos Enrique Díaz de León Mauricio Dubois	Military
2 July 1954	1 September 1954	Government Junta II composed of: Carlos Castillo Armas (junta chairman) Mauricio Dubois Enrique Trinidad Oliva Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre Jose Luis Cruz Salazar	Military
1 September 1954	26 July 1957	Carlos Castillo Armas	Military
27 July 1957	24 October 1957	Luis Arturo González López (acting)	National Progress Party
24 October 1957	26 October 1957	Óscar Mendoza Azurdia (chairman of military junta)	Military
27 October 1957	2 March 1958	Guillermo Flores Avendaño (acting)	Military
2 March 1958	31 March 1963	José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes	National Democratic Reconciliation/Redemption Party
31 March 1963	1 July 1966	Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia (Head of government to 5 May 1966 and then Head of State)	Military
1 July 1966	1 July 1970	Julio César Méndez Montenegro	Revolutionary Party
1 July 1970	1 July 1974	Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio	Military/National Liberation Movement
1 July 1974	1 July 1978	Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García	Military/National Liberation Movement/Institutional Democratic Party
1 July 1978	23 March 1982	Fernando Romeo Lucas García	Military/Institutional Democratic Party/Revolutionary Party
23 March 1982	8 August 1983	José Efraín Ríos Montt (chairman of military junta to 9 June 1982)	Military
8 August 1983	14 January 1986	Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores (Chief of State)	Military
14 January 1986	14 January 1991	Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo	Guatemalan Christian Democratic Party
14 January 1991	5 June 1993	Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías	Solidarity Action Movement
6 June 1993	14 January 1996	Ramiro de León Carpio	Non-party
14 January 1996	14 January 2000	Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen	National Progress Party
14 January 2000	14 January 2004	Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera	Guatemalan Republican Front
14 January 2004	14 January 2008	Óscar Berger Perdomo	Grand National Alliance
14 January 2008	Present	Álvaro Colom Caballeros	National Unity of Hope

[edit] See also

• History of Guatemala